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The Fight against PKK Terrorism

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Turkish security forces seized a major arms stash belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the country’s eastern and southeastern provinces over the past week from June 8 to 15, the Turkish military stated on June 16.

According to a statement from the Turkish General Staff, security forces spotted some 52 shelters, caves and storage areas used by PKK militants and destroyed them, in operations conducted in the provinces of Şırnak, Hakkari, Diyarbakır, Bingöl, Elazığ, Mardin and Siirt.

Weapons including rifles, handguns, hand grenades, machine guns and rocket launchers were seized during the operations, the statement said, adding that around 750 kilograms (1,653 pounds) of ammonium nitrate, gas cylinders, mines and a large amount of ammunition as well as cables and fuses - possibly used in bomb-making - were also captured.

The security forces have also killed 60 PKK militants during operations over the past week, the military stated, adding that seven soldiers were killed and another 19 were injured.

“The PKK, which has received one of its largest blows of the last few years and lost an important number of its members, been stuck in a difficult situation with loss especially from its leader cadre, which has not been able to replace these losses as there is no new participation in the group, has gotten into a scrape in the last few months,” the statement said.

The military said it also targeted the PKK’s illegal drug trafficking transaction, which is believed to be the main financial source for the group. Contraband confiscated over the week included 459,953 pieces of hemp roots, 113 kilograms (249 pounds) of drugs, 1,607 kilograms of powder cannabis, as well as 1,291 kilograms of powder hashish and 92,110 packages of smuggled cigarettes, it added.

It also said 5,617 illegal migrants were stopped at Turkey’s borders.



Military operation in Syria’s north

The military also mentioned the cross-border operation in Syria’s north in its statement, saying that it secured an area of 90 square kilometers covering 243 residential districts in the Syrian cities of Jarablus and Azez.

The Turkish security forces reportedly continued to clear off mines and explosives off the Al-Bab city center as well as the town of Qabasin and the village of Bzaah, which it took control of together with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in February from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

The military also said it took precautions against the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed wing, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), to stop these groups from crossing the east of Afrin and the west of Manbij.

The military emphasized that it will continue its fight against the PYD, YPG, PKK and ISIL until all their members are “neutralized,” stating that the groups targeted “Turkey’s national unity and indivisible integrity.”

Authorities use the word “neutralized” in their statements to imply the militants in question were either killed, wounded or captured.

June/16/2017
 
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I dont understand, how other countries fight against terrorists in the dark? Look at those bullets how randomly they are fired

What else do we need to deteck these terrorists before they attack our soldiers, more uavs? more walls? Maybe us-mexican border is good example, border procted by uavs 24/7. Im telling myself every year that this their final summer, no more attacks to oursoldiers, but nothing changes. Summer is coming :(
 
I dont understand, how other countries fight against terrorists in the dark? Look at those bullets how randomly they are fired

What else do we need to deteck these terrorists before they attack our soldiers, more uavs? more walls? Maybe us-mexican border is good example, border procted by uavs 24/7. Im telling myself every year that this their final summer, no more attacks to oursoldiers, but nothing changes. Summer is coming :(
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I dont understand, how other countries fight against terrorists in the dark? Look at those bullets how randomly they are fired

What else do we need to deteck these terrorists before they attack our soldiers, more uavs? more walls? Maybe us-mexican border is good example, border procted by uavs 24/7. Im telling myself every year that this their final summer, no more attacks to oursoldiers, but nothing changes. Summer is coming :(

As far as I know the PKK grew immensely in the early 90's, I believe this is linked to the 1991 Gulf war which caused Iraq to lose control of the north enabling them to organize in the open without attacks from Baghdad, then you had the 1993 Sivas attack.

I think it requires joint-efforts from the several states where these kurdish groups are active. However, this is difficult given that some of these states (Syria & Iraq) are not in control of there northern parts. The flow of arms to the PKK doesn't stop when this joint effort is absent, stopping human flow/PKK recruits is done differently.. but then again, I believe this is a problem of loyalty, you can brainwash them but they don't truly identify as Turks or Iraqis, Syrians.

Good luck to the soldiers fighting these monkeys
 
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As far as I know the PKK grew immensely in the early 90's, I believe this is linked to the 1991 Gulf war which caused Iraq to lose control of the north enabling them to organize in the open without attacks from Baghdad, then you had the 1993 Sivas attack.

I think it requires joint-efforts from the several states where these kurdish groups are active. However, this is difficult given that some of these states (Syria & Iraq) are not in control of there northern parts.

Turkey opened its doors to more than 500,000 kurdish refugees who fled Iraq during Saddam's rule when he supressed the rebel in North Iraq harshly and many of them later turned out to be PKK terrorists . Today, we have 3,000,000 Syrian refugees and we dont know how many of them are ISIS/PKK...

Turkey has became a refugee camp.
 
Turkey opened its doors to more than 500,000 kurdish refugees who fled Iraq during Saddam's rule when he supressed the rebel in North Iraq harshly and many of them later turned out to be PKK terrorists . Today, we have 3,000,000 Syrian refugees and we dont know how many of them are ISIS/PKK...

Turkey has became a refugee camp.

You mean opened the doors to 500.000 enemies.

Saddam's policy to suppress these "rebels" benefited you as it is no different than the fight against the PKK. The 1991 Northern no fly zone imposed over Iraq led by the US disabled the air and ground forces from operating in the north. Should've kept those borders closed and started joint operations with Iraq (under Saddam in the 90's), although I understand Turkey was in a less powerful position back then and didn't want to interfere with the Iran-Iraq war. Now the situation puts more load on you, only thing we know is that the current policy isn't working.

Barzani cannot be trusted either, he's a nationalist although tribal with a dictator mindset, it's beneficial for him to keep the PKK operating in Turkey so that he can be viewed by Turkey as the 'better alternative Kurd'. Why do you think he's not touched the PKK for all those years, since 1991 or something. PKK is even present in Kerkuk, that means they travel freely through all that land controlled by KDP and PUK.
 
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